
Article 1 
Article 3 of Regulation (EC) No 1708/2005 is replaced by the following:
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Article 3 

1. The common index reference period for the HICP shall be set at 2015 = 100. This new index reference period shall be used for the full time series of all HICP indices and sub-indices, starting with the publication of the HICP for January 2016.
2. Any additional sub-index to be integrated into the HICP shall be linked in December of a particular year at the level of 100 index points and shall be used as of and including January of the following year.'
Article 2 
This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.
This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.Done at Brussels, 11 November 2015.
For the Commission
The President
Jean-Claude JUNCKER